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Appendix E
Biographical Sketches of Panel Members
TERESA A. SULLIVAN (Chair) was named the eighth president of the Uni-
versity of Virginia in January 2010. She was previously provost and executive
vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, where she was
also professor of sociology in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Earlier, she was executive vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University
of Texas System, having served as vice president and graduate dean, vice provost,
and chair of the sociology department at the University of Texas at Austin. She
has also held faculty appointments at the University of Chicago. A member of the
law school faculty at Texas in addition to the sociology department, her research
focuses on labor force demography, with particular emphasis on economic mar-
ginality and consumer debt. She is author or co-author of 6 books and more than
50 scholarly articles, and her most recent work examined the question of who
files for bankruptcy and why. Ms. Sullivan has served as chair of the U.S. Census
Advisory Committee. She is past secretary of the American Sociological Associa-
tion and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
A graduate of James Madison College at Michigan State University, Ms. Sullivan
received her doctoral degree in sociology from the University of Chicago.
THOMAS R. BAILEY is the George and Abby O'Neill professor of economics
and education in the Department of International and Transcultural Studies at
Teachers College, Columbia University. In 1996, he established the Community
College Research Center at Teachers College, which conducts qualitative and
quantitative research based on fieldwork at community colleges and analysis of
national- and state-level datasets. Dr. Bailey has examined the role of community
colleges in promoting educational attainment of black and Hispanic students in
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a recently completed study for the Ford Foundation. Since 1992, Dr. Bailey has
also been the director of the Institute on Education and the Economy at Teachers
College. He has served as a consultant to many public agencies and foundations
including the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Education, the
Office of Technology Assessment, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the William T.
Grant Foundation, and several state and local economic development and educa-
tional agencies. Dr. Bailey holds a Ph.D. in labor economics from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
BARRY P. BOSWORTH is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program
and is the Robert V. Roosa chair in international economics at the Brookings
Institution. His research includes work on the determinants of economic growth
in developing countries, saving, and capital formation. He was director of the
President's Council on Wage and Price Stability in 1977-1979; visiting lecturer
at the University of California, Berkeley, 1974-1975; and assistant professor,
Harvard University, 1969-1971. Some recent publications include The Economy
of Puerto Rico: Restoring Growth, with Susan Collins and Miguel A. Soto-Class
(2006); Services Productivity in the United States: New Sources of Economic
Growth, with Jack Triplett (2004); "The Empirics of Growth: An Update," Brook-
ings Papers on Economic Activity (2003), with Susan Collins; "Increased Life
Expectancy: A Global Perspective," with Benjamin Keys, in Henry Aaron and
William Schwartz (editors), Coping with Methuselah (2003); Aging Societies:
The Global Dimension (1998), edited with Gary Burtless; Coming Together?
Mexico-U.S. Relations (1997), edited with Susan M. Collins and Nora Lustig;
and "Valuing the Renminbi," Tokyo Club Papers (2004). He holds a Ph.D. from
the University of Michigan.
DAVID W. BRENEMAN is university professor and Newton and Rita Meyers
professor in economics of education at the University of Virginia. He previ-
ously served (2006-2009) as director of the public policy program at the Batten
School of Leadership and Public Policy. From 1995 to 2007, he served as dean
of the Curry School of Education. He also serves as a member of the Board of
Trustees for Sweet Briar College. Dr. Breneman was visiting professor at the
Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1990 to 1995, where he taught
graduate courses on the economics and financing of higher education, on liberal
arts colleges, and on the college presidency. As a visiting fellow at the Brookings
Institution, he conducted research for a book, Liberal Arts Colleges: Thriving,
Surviving, or Endangered?, published by Brookings in 1994. From 1983 to 1989,
Dr. Breneman served as president of Kalamazoo College, a liberal arts college
in Michigan. Prior to that, he was a senior fellow at Brookings from 1975 to
1983, specializing in the economics of higher education and public policy toward
education. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California,
Berkeley.
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RONALD G. EHRENBERG is the Irving M. Ives professor of industrial and
labor relations and economics at Cornell University and director of the Cornell
Higher Education Research Institute. From 1995 to 1998, he served as Cornell's
vice president for Academic Programs, Planning, and Budgeting. A member
of the Cornell faculty for 28 years, Dr. Ehrenberg has authored or co-authored
over 120 papers and books. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of
Economic Research and a past president of the Society of Labor Economists. At
the National Research Council, Dr. Ehrenberg has previously served on the Com-
mittee on Dimensions, Causes, and Implications of Trends in Early Career Events
for Life Scientists and the Committee on Methods for Forecasting Demand and
Supply of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers; he is also a member of the PGA
Oversight Committee and previously served on the OSEP Advisory Committee.
He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University.
PETER T. EWELL is vice president at the National Center for Higher Education
Management Systems (NCHEMS) in Boulder, Colorado, a research and develop-
ment center founded to improve the management effectiveness of colleges and
universities. A member of the staff since 1981, Dr. Ewell's work focuses on as-
sessing institutional effectiveness and the outcomes of college, and involves both
research and direct consulting with institutions and state systems on collecting
and using assessment information in planning, evaluation, and budgeting. Dr.
Ewell has authored six books and numerous articles on the topic of improving un-
dergraduate instruction through the assessment of student outcomes. Prior to join-
ing NCHEMS, Dr. Ewell was coordinator for long-range planning at Governors
State University and was on the faculty of the University of Chicago. In addition
to consulting in higher education, Dr. Ewell has been involved in program evalua-
tion, organizational development, and strategic planning for a variety of nonprofit
and arts organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts and six
state arts agencies. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.
IRWIN FELLER is senior visiting scientist at the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. He is also emeritus professor of economics and
former director and professor of economics for the Institute for Policy Research
and Evaluation at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include
science and technology policy, the economics of higher education, and program
evaluation. He has published widely on topics such as the influence of the Gov-
ernment Performance and Results Act on research, technology diffusion from uni-
versity research, research performance measurement, the university role in basic
research, and state and federal technology policy. He has been a consultant to the
President's Office of Science and Technology Policy; the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration; the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology,
and Government; the Ford Foundation; the National Science Foundation; the
National Institute of Standards and Technology; the COSMOS Corporation; SRI
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International; the U.S. Government Accountability Office; and the U.S. Depart-
ments of Education and Energy. Dr. Feller is a member of the American Eco-
nomic Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. He is currently
a member of the National Research Council Committee to Review EPA's Title 42
Hiring Authority for Highly Qualified Scientists and Engineers. Dr. Feller holds
a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota.
BARBARA FRAUMENI is associate dean of research, chair of the Ph.D. pro-
gram, and professor of public policy at the Muskie School of Public Service of
the University of Southern Maine. She previously served as chief economist of
the Bureau of Economic Analysis and was a research fellow of the Program on
Technology and Economic Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
at Harvard University. Her areas of expertise and research interests include mea-
surement issues and national income accounting; human and nonhuman capital,
productivity, and economic growth; market and nonmarket accounts; investment
in education and research and development; and measurement of highway capital
stock and the real output of government by function. Dr. Fraumeni served on the
National Research Council's Panel to Study the Design of Nonmarket Accounts.
She holds a B.A. from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. from Boston College.
JULIET V. GARCIA is president of the University of Texas at Brownsville and
Texas Southmost College, and is the first Mexican-American woman in the nation
selected to lead a college or a university. She is known for her pioneering effort
to design and establish a unique partnership between the pre-existing community
college and the newly created University of Texas at Brownsville. Under her
leadership, the newly created "community university" has grown from 7,300 to
almost 14,000 students, expanded its degree offerings to multiple new associate,
bachelor's, and graduate programs, and transformed a 47-acre community college
campus into a 380-acre university campus with new state-of-the-art facilities. Dr.
Garcia serves on the board of directors for the Public Welfare Foundation, the
Ford Foundation, Campus Compact, and the National Audubon Society. She is
the former chair of the American Council on Education and the Advisory Com-
mittee to Congress on Student Financial Assistance and the former vice chair of
the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. She holds a Ph.D. in
communication and linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin.
MICHAEL HOUT is professor of sociology and demography at the University of
California, Berkeley. Dr. Hout currently chairs the Graduate Group in Sociology
and Demography and the Berkeley Population Center. He has published widely
in the areas of demography, inequality, religion, social change, and quantitative
methods. His honors include the Clogg Award from the Population Association of
America in 1997, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in
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1997, the National Academy of Sciences in 2003, and the American Philosophical
Society in 2006. At the National Research Council, Dr. Hout previously served on
the Committee for the Redesign of the U.S. Naturalization Tests and is currently
a member of the Committee on National Statistics, the Board on Testing and As-
sessment, and the Committee on Incentives and Test-based Accountability. He
holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in sociology from Indiana University.
NATE JOHNSON is a senior consultant to HCM Strategists on higher education
policy, funding, and student success issues. He has worked in education policy,
planning, and institutional research at the national, state, and institutional levels.
He previously served for five years as executive director of planning and analysis
for the State University System of Florida in the office of the chancellor. He fa-
cilitated the first statewide strategic plan for the Board of Governors after it was
created in the Florida Constitution in 2003. He also served as associate director
of institutional research at the University of Florida and as a policy analyst in
Florida's nationally recognized Office of Articulation, where he helped develop
policies related to inter-sector transfer, high school graduation standards, and
college admissions. He holds a bachelor's degree from Whitman College and a
Ph.D. in English literature from Cornell University.
GEORGE D. KUH is chancellor's professor emeritus of higher education and
founding director of the Center for Postsecondary Research in the School of Edu-
cation at Indiana University. His research interests include assessing student and
institutional performance to enhance student success and to improve the quality
of the undergraduate experience. Dr. Kuh founded the National Survey of Student
Engagement (NSSE) and related surveys for law students, beginning college stu-
dents, and faculty along with the NSSE Institute for Effective Educational Prac-
tice. Since 1994, he has directed the College Student Experience Questionnaire
Research Program. Dr. Kuh was a member of the National Research Council
Panel on Student Processes and Outcomes. He holds a Ph.D. in education from
the University of Iowa.
WILLIAM F. MASSY is professor emeritus of education and business adminis-
tration at Stanford University. From 1995 to 2009, he was president of the Jackson
Hole Higher Education Group, Inc., a specialist in the economic and leadership
issues confronting today's colleges and universities. In the 1970s and 1980s, he
held senior administrative positions at Stanford University, where he pioneered
the use of financial management and planning tools that have become standards
in higher education. After founding the Stanford Institute for Higher Education
Research in 1988, Dr. Massy's research focused on institutional strategy, faculty
roles and responsibilities, resource allocation processes, and universities as sys-
tems. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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CAROL A. TWIGG is president and chief executive officer of the National
Center for Academic Transformation in Saratoga Springs, New York, and an
internationally recognized expert in using information technology to transform
teaching and learning in higher education. Winner of the McGraw Prize in
Education, she is former vice president of Educom (now EDUCAUSE), where
she advanced the need for new models of student-centered, online teaching and
learning, now commonly accepted in higher education. She also initiated the
IMS Global Learning Consortium, which is establishing interoperable technical
standards for online education and training. Before joining Educom, Dr. Twigg
was associate vice chancellor for learning technologies for the State University
of New York and held a number of senior academic administrative positions at
Empire State College. She holds a Ph.D. in English literature from the State
University of New York at Buffalo.
DAVID J. ZIMMERMAN is Orrin Sage professor of political economy and
professor of economics at Williams College. He is also director of the Williams
Project on the Economics of Higher Education and a research associate at the
National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests include labor eco-
nomics, poverty and income distribution, and the economics of higher education.
He holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, both in economics, from Princeton University.
